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Stories of Survival

By Nate Berkus
The Oprah Winfrey Show  |  January 17, 2005
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Stefhan Markstrom

 

Stefhan also had heroic moments on the hilltop. "I put this British girl into safety," he says. "I heard her father screaming in the distance, so I carried her away. I was strong enough to, you know, struggle [against] the currents between the first and second wave."

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